Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.

Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.

Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.

A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows.

If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in which they can be satisfied infinitely exceeds our own, we must expect a priori that his operations will often appear to us far from beneficent and far from wise, and that it will be our highest prudence to give him our confidence in spite of this.

The Christians say that God has done miracles. The modern world, even when it believes in God, and even when it has see the defenselessness of nature, does not. It thinks God would not do that sort of thing.